Senior Accountant

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JOB DESCRIPTION: SENIOR ACCOUNTANT

Title: Senior Accountant

Status: Full-Time, Exempt

Reports to: Accounting and Finance Manager

Location: Hybrid (Flexible: On-Site & Remote)

Organization Overview:

In 1993, Friends of the Children opened its doors with three friends serving 24 children. Today, Friends of the Children-Portland has 50 Friends guiding, supporting, and mentoring almost 500 children across the Portland/Vancouver metropolitan area. Our mission is to eradicate generational poverty by empowering youth, from kindergarten through high school graduation, who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors-12+ years, no matter what.

Position Overview:

Friends of the Children

• Portland is looking for an extraordinary professional to join our finance team. Are you flexible and ready to take on a wide range of accounting tasks? Is working for an organization that inspires you a critical aspect of your job search? We may have the perfect career for you.

The Senior Accountant supports the Accounting Manager in all aspects of financial reporting for Friends of the Children

• Portland. The position is responsible for adhering to accounting principles and developing and maintaining practices and procedures to ensure accurate and timely financial statements. The position engages in a multitude of deadline-driven accounting activities including general ledger preparation, financial reporting, year-end audit preparation, and budgeting and planning. The position supports grant budgeting, reporting, and compliance; bi-monthly payroll runs; treasury activities; and special planning and analysis projects. The position reviews some work of the Staff Accountant, who is responsible for A/R, A/P, and revenue accounting. The position will also serve as a critical back-up resource to both the Accounting Manager and Staff Accountant.

Essential Functions & Responsibilities:

• Prepare monthly journal entries, bank transactions, and account reconciliations

• Assist the Staff Accountant and review data entry to ensure accurate financial reporting

• Work with the Accounting Manager to ensure a clean and timely year-end audit

• Prepare bi-monthly payroll, ensuring accurate and timely payment, reporting, and accounting of wages and taxes

• Review treasury activity including positive pay and daily remote deposit

• Monitor and analyze department work to develop more efficient procedures and use of resources while maintaining a high level of accuracy

• Assist in preparation of monthly financial statements and other reporting for executives, the Board of Directors, committees, grants, and internal departments

• Support budgeting and planning activities

• Prepare reports on grant expenditures for external and internal reporting

• Respond to inquiries from the Executive Director, Chief Finance Officer, and other managers regarding financial results and special reporting requests

• Support the CFO and Accounting Manager on special projects, workflow process improvements, and process documentation

• Report on financial position and activity to select Board Committees as requested

• Learn and regularly perform the most critical aspects of the Accounting Manager and Staff Accountant roles to provide essential coverage during absences

Required competencies, skills and abilities:

• Three to five years of financial accounting experience

• Strong GAAP/internal controls knowledge

• Experience in supporting multiple business entities simultaneously

• Ability to maintain a high degree of confidentiality

• Highly organized and efficient in completing various projects with overlapping deadlines

• Strong in Microsoft Office 365 Suite (primarily Excel, Teams, Outlook, and Word)

• Proficient with pivot tables and vlookup functions in Excel

• Comfortable working both independently and collaboratively as needed

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent, preferably with an accounting or business concentration

Preferred competencies, skills and abilities:

• Non-profit accounting

• Grant accounting

• Raiser's Edge and Financial Edge

• Payroll processing (using ADP or similar system)

Friends of the Children

• Portland is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to addressing discriminatory practices, and to working toward racial equity. The equal employment opportunity policy of Friends of the Children

• Portland provides fair and equal opportunities for all employees and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, marital status, familial status, disability, or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local law. Friends of the Children

• Portland hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.

JOB DESCRIPTION: SENIOR ACCOUNTANT Title: Senior Accountant Status: Full-Time Non-Exempt Reports to: Accounting and Finance Manager Location: Hybrid (Flexible: On-Site & Remote) Organization Overview: In 1993, Friends of the Children opened its doors with three friends serving 24 children. Today, Friends of the Children-Portland has 50 Friends guiding, supporting, and mentoring…","html_description":"

JOB DESCRIPTION: SENIOR ACCOUNTANT

Title: Senior Accountant

Status: Full-Time Non-Exempt

Reports to: Accounting and Finance Manager

Location: Hybrid (Flexible: On-Site & Remote)

Organization Overview:

In 1993, Friends of the Children opened its doors with three friends serving 24 children. Today, Friends of the Children-Portland has 50 Friends guiding, supporting, and mentoring almost 500 children across the Portland/Vancouver metropolitan area. Our mission is to eradicate generational poverty by empowering youth, from kindergarten through high school graduation, who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors-12+ years, no matter what.

Position Overview:

Friends of the Children

• Portland is looking for an extraordinary professional to join our finance team. Are you flexible and ready to take on a wide range of accounting tasks? Is working for an organization that inspires you a critical aspect of your job search? We may have the perfect career for you.

The Senior Accountant supports the Accounting and Finance Manager in all aspects of financial reporting for Friends of the Children

• Portland. The position is responsible for adhering to accounting principles and developing and maintaining practices and procedures to ensure accurate and timely financial statements. The position engages in a multitude of deadline-driven accounting activities including general ledger preparation, financial reporting, year-end audit preparation, and budgeting and planning. The position supports grant budgeting, reporting, and compliance; bi-monthly payroll runs; treasury activities; and special planning and analysis projects. The position reviews some work of the Staff Accountant, who is responsible for A/R, A/P, and revenue accounting. The position will also serve as a critical backup resource to both the Accounting and Finance Manager and Staff Accountant.

Essential Functions & Responsibilities:

• Prepare monthly journal entries, bank transactions, and account reconciliations

• Assist in preparation of monthly financial statements and other reporting for executives, the Board of Directors, committees, grants, and internal departments

• Support budgeting and planning activities

• Monitor and analyze department work to develop more efficient procedures and use of resources while maintaining a high level of accuracy

• Prepare bi-monthly payroll, ensuring accurate and timely payment, reporting, and accounting of wages and taxes

• Prepare reports on grant expenditures for external and internal reporting

• Respond to inquiries from the Executive Director, Chief Finance Officer, and other managers regarding financial results and special reporting requests

• Work with the Accounting Manager to ensure a clean and timely year-end audit

• Support the CFO and Accounting Manager on special projects, workflow process improvements, and process documentation

• Assist the Staff Accountant and review data entry to ensure accurate financial reporting

• Report on financial position and activity to select Board Committees

• Review treasury activity including positive pay and daily remote deposit

• Learn and regularly perform the most critical aspects of the Accounting Manager and Staff Accountant roles to provide essential coverage during absences

• Other responsibilities as deemed appropriate

Qualifications (Required Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities):

• Experience in supporting multiple business entities simultaneously

• Ability to maintain a high degree of confidentiality

• Highly organized and efficient in completing various projects with overlapping deadlines

• Proficient with pivot tables and VLOOKUP functions in Excel

• Comfortable working both independently and collaboratively as needed

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent, preferably with an accounting or business concentration

• Non-profit accounting

• Grant Accounting

• Raiser's Edge and Financial Edge

• Payroll processing (using ADP or similar system)

Friends of the Children

• Portland is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to addressing discriminatory practices, and to working toward racial equity. The equal employment opportunity policy of Friends of the Children

• Portland provides fair and equal opportunities for all employees and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, marital status, familial status, disability, or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local law. Friends of the Children

• Portland hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.

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Thank you for your interest in employment with Friends of the Children. We have a strong commitment to provide a workplace free of alcohol and illegal drugs. It is our intention to provide a healthy and safe workplace for all of our employees as well as maintaining an environment conducive to excellent service to our many constituencies: children, their families, coworkers, community partners, donors and vendors. In keeping with this commitment, we have a policy prohibiting illegal drugs and alcohol in the workplace.
A condition of employment with Friends of the Children is successful completion of drug testing performed on samples of urine provided by the candidate. These samples are tested for the presence of drugs that may be illegal or adversely affect job performance.
Please read and sign the consent section below. Only completed applications, including the signed consent forms, will be considered for employment. Your signature below signifies your consent to provide necessary samples at a designated facility, consent to have such samples tested for the presence of drugs, and authorizes the release of test results to the designated representative for its sole use in evaluating you for employment.
Please Read Before Submitting
I certify that all information provided on this application and all attachments is true and complete. I understand that any offer of employment will be contingent upon my submitting to and successfully passing a drug test, reference checks and a criminal background check. I release Friends of the Children and the testing laboratory from any and all liability and claims incident to such sample collection, testing and use of test results associated with my drug test. I consent to and authorize Friends of the Children to request any information concerning my current and/or previous employment and educational history and release all parties and persons connected with any request for information from all claims, liabilities and damages for whatever reason arising out of furnishing such information. If I am employed, I understand that if anything proves contrary to what I have stated or any material information is omitted on this Application for Employment, my employment will be terminated. I understand that if hired, I will be required to produce documents on my first day of employment that verify my identity and legal authorization to work in the United States. I understand that my employment with the organization is not for a specified term, and that my employment or compensation may be terminated at any time be either myself or the organization, with or without cause or notice.
Friends of the Children is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, religion or veteran status.

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Accounting

Position Type

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Experience Level

Mid Level

Employer Type

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Salary Min

72000

Salary Max

72000

Salary Type

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